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- Title: Lintel 24
- Period: Late Classic
- Date: 750 CE
- Civilization: Maya
- Medium: Limestone
- 1. Middle to low relief
- 2. Scene depicts a sacred blood letting ritual that took place on Oct 26th 709
- 3. Not carved in place - carved in a separate stone and then put into place
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- Monument title: Temple of the Moon
- Site: Teotihuacan
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 150 CE
- 1. Cerro Gordo is behind it
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- Monument title: Temple of the Sun
- Site: Teotihuacan
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 225 CE
- 1. Third largest pyramid in the world
- 2. Measurements are 733 ft wide 246 ft high
- 3. There is a cave underneath it, thought that pyramid was build to protect the cave
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- Title: Great Goddess
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 150 CE
- Civilization: Maya
- Medium: Limestone
- 1. Sculpture in the round (freestanding)
- 2. There is a hole below the necklace which probably once had a jade gem inside it
- 3. She is wearing a poncho-like thing and wringing it out, significant because she is associated as the Rain Gods wife or sister
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- Title: Mask
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 450 CE
- Civilization: Maya
- Medium: shell, obsidian, malachite mosaic
- 1. Drill holes in the ears and inlaid eyes
- 2. Small glyph in the forehead
- 3. Commonly placed over mummy bundles to protect the deceased from dangers of afterlife
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- Title: Jaw and Teeth Necklace
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 2nd Century
- Civilization: Maya
- Medium: Human bone
- 1. It came from the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent
- 2. They were warrior prize pieces
- 3. There were around 200 bodies found outside the temple it came from
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- Monument title: Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 200 CE
- 1. Talud/tablero style
- 2. High relief carvings of Tlaloc (Rain God) and Feathered Serpent decorated the tablero
- 3. The mouths of the heads were spouts
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- Title: Reconstruction of mural painting of diety & two attendants
- Period:
- Date: 2nd Century
- Civilization: Maya
- Medium: Painting
- 1. Depiction of the great goddess wearing a headdress
- 2. Vibrant, vegetation growing from her head may represent deforestation or crop failure
- 3. Some people called her the spider woman
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- Title: Reconstruction Tomb 104
- Period: Early Classic
- Date: 400 CE
- Civilization: Zapotec
- Medium: Mural painting
- 1. The side figured gesture to the niche in front of them possibly an offering
- 2. Central figure seems to rise out of the central niche and can be compared to the great goddess
- 3. Palette is blue and yellow
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